Monthly Archives: February 2011

My little getting-through-the-CSA-despite-being-a-working-mom secret is that I do A LOT of the weekly prep on Saturday in the late morning/early afternoon. It really helps me to just power through all the messy work, clean the kitchen once, and know that … Continue reading →

This is one of those experiments that seemed just on the edge enough to be an absolute disaster, but being otherwise flat out of ideas for bok choy, I figured I’d try it. And hey, if I happened to ruin … Continue reading →

I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Blame it on the weird traveling &tc. I promise to be better this week. And it should be a good one, as I have some plans that could turn into total train wrecks! The … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my last post, I got a trip away for a couple of days as a birthday gift from Sam. The people I visited are childless, and I took the opportunity to do lots of stuff that … Continue reading →

So last week I posted a bit of personal stuff, about how being in a CSA can be hard sometimes, despite being super rewarding. And in the process I mentioned bugs. And then one of the lovely farmers posted a … Continue reading →

I’d like to be a locavore, but there are a few things standing in my way. First is coffee which I am now so thoroughly addicted to that if I don’t get my daily hit at more or less the … Continue reading →

Until I came to California, I had never even heard of spring onions. In the upper midwest (where I grew up and spent considerable years of my adulthood), despite years of Farmers Market shopping, I never once saw anything called … Continue reading →